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...What is asparagus pee? Why does it smell funny? KGB: Asparagus gives a distinctive smell in the urine due to various sulfur-containing degradation products and ammonia...
What about the spending provisions in the various plans? Again, there has been an Alice in Wonderland quality to much of the criticism, as if Keynes were a fraud and government spending couldn't possibly create jobs - especially spending on biomedical research or education about STDs or any other programs that sound vaguely liberal and exotic. But biomedical research jobs are real jobs. So are jobs beautifying the Mall and warning teenagers about herpes. So are jobs building and engineering rail lines for Amtrak, regardless of the company's current profitability. Granted, some spending proposals would work faster and better...
...process, it can be argued, help lay the foundation for the current crisis). But Obama has called for an earmark-free stimulus, so the legislation shouldn't have too many embarrassing waterslides, Mafia museums or cranberry subsidies. Instead, Congress would funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to states and various agencies...
...Lanka's minority Hindu and Christian Tamils, who still face discrimination at the hands of the country's mostly Buddhist Sinhalese majority. More than two decades of conflict have led to allegations of atrocities on both sides - from kidnappings and extrajudicial killings to the recruitment of child soldiers. Various rounds of peace talks, the last held in 2002, failed to reconcile the LTTE with the government. But even with a decisive military victory, Colombo will have to take significant measures to win the peace...
...boasts of his connections and explains what his work would entail: "It is. . .identifying people. . .meeting people, talking with people to facilitate the amendment and making sure the thing is granted," he says. "I think the other thing is identifying. . .who can be approached to put forward amendments at various stages and maybe other bodies to contact." In an audio clip, his colleague Lord Taylor tells an undercover reporter that "some companies that I work with would pay me ?100,000 a year" to facilitate meetings with decision-makers. When questioned by the reporter about that fee, Taylor says: "That...